Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-28

Thursday afternoon number Of army officers
had crowded under and around the little lawn tent
provided for the comfort of the judges when one
| Of Gen. Augur's aids rode up and dismounted.
horse had got one OF his hind legs tangled in guy
rope, and began kicking the tent to pieces. One
oincer grabbed the horse and another the rope,
and the horse was soon released, not, however,
Delore ne had seriously damaged the tent.
T0-DAYs RIFLE MATCH.
AS stated In THE STAR yesterday, rifle match
has been arranged between oficers, to take place
at the washington barracks at o'clock this after
noon Each contestant win be allowed ten shots
at 20O and ten shots at 800 yards making 100 the
The teams will be as follows:
Col Wardwell, I'd Maryland Infantry: Lieut..
Chantler Minnesota N. G.; Lieut.. Allen 9TH u. s.
Ee GSp 20
Cash's team-Lieut Cash, W. l. /. c.: Capt.
Mount, Iowa n. G.. Capt. Gaebelin, 1st Michigan;
Sepne Sd eut Aapsy asa s5s
U. S. Artillery.
He BOUGHT SOME PICTURES
At headquarters to-day the officers were enjoy
ing joke on the d1gnifled provost marshal gen
eral, Gen. Wright, Of Iowa. Complaint was made
selling photographs contrary to orders, as the
photograph privilege was sold to a city photo
grapher. The provost marshal general had the
onendlng peddier brought before him. The cul-
prit was glib talker and ready for business he
displayed his attractive array of pictures to the
sSern general ana soon got the ofcer SO interested
house he bought collection of pictures. He then
had the man conducted outside the lines
TALK ABOUT THE DRILL.
OF course the progress OF the drills going on in
the drill grounds is inquired about anxiously in
camp The friends OF the National Rifles were
exultanC to-day over the favorable reports that
came from the drill grounds OF their performance
1t is stated In camp that the LOmax Rides do not
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SAID In drilling them, omitted whole page Of the
program. Capt: Davis was summoned here to the
drill just after his wtfeS death. He had had Op
portunfty to drill his men, In the gossip OF the camp
the prizes seem to lie somewhere among the Mus
Company /, 1st Minnesota; the Toledo Cadets. the
Rifles.
AN EXHIBITION OF SIGNALLING.
Last night, on the Monument terrace, an tnstru-
ment which can be briefly described as consisting
OF two bull'seye lanterns with telescope between
| them, mounted on tripod, stood on the south
terrace of the Monument. Lieut.. Finley, Of the
ment. When the night drew on away over on the
Fort Myer hill, across the Potomac, dim point Of
ngaG could occasionally be seen There was an
| Monument terrace, and 1t was operated
BY Lieut. Warren. The instrument was Lieut..
It was operated simply and rapidly. Before each
lantern was binder, which opened, exposing the
light when the operator pressed key, and Inn
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when the pressure on the key was removed. The
glass was carefully adjusted, so that it covered
the lights at Fort kyer. One looking through it
could distinctly see the lights there when shown.
The Morse alphabet Is used, one light represent
lang dot and two lights shown together repre-
] senting q dash. Thus no mistake can be made, 1t
is claimed, as sometimes occurs In systems
that represent dots and dashes, both
by one light the distinction being
| made by the length Of time the light is shown.
| AS messages arereceived the operator is not re-
i quired to spell them out, but has an instrument
in front Of him with a Key, which he presses re-
cOrding the dots and daShes on slip OF paper.
This makes permanent record, which he can
/ read at leisure. Lieut.. Finley said the lanterns
can be used at night for signalling distance Of
twenty miles or more. BY day instead OF lanterns
sun nashes from mirrors, properly adjusted, con-
| vey the messages Sun-dash messages have been
sent and read q distance OF twenty miles. An at
i tempt was made yesterday afternoon to give an
exhioati0n OF sun-flash signalling, but the clouds
prevented.
! FIGHT.
The crowd at the pyroranaa performance last
| night was larger than at any previous perform
ance. The failure Of the usual O'Clock storm
gave the people an opportunity 70 get out, bui